Efeito da mudança na cobertura vegetal na evapotranspiração e vazão de microbacias na região do Alto Xingu

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Lívia Cristina Pinto
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5276
• topic: Evapotranspiração; Climatologia; Hidroclimatologia; Alto Xingu; Evapotranspiration; Climatology; Hydroclimatology; Upper Xingu; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS::METEOROLOGIA::CLIMATOLOGIA

One of the traditional forms of agricultural expansion is the conversion of natural ecosystems into cultivated areas, usually through deforestation. The Upper Xingu, located in the state of Mato Grosso Brazil, has been referred to as one of the regions of most intense conversion of natural ecosystems to pasture or cropland (specially soybean) in the country, and there is a concern with respect to how and how much these changes in vegetation modify the hydroclimatology of the region. Thus, this study aims to assess the influence of land cover changes on evapotranspiration and streamflow in small catchments of the Upper Xingu, in the southeastern Amazon basin. Streamflow was measured in small catchments with uniform land use in the region of study, and single point simulations were performed considering Tropical Rainforest, Cerrado and Pasture as land use in the InLand model and Soybean cropland as land use in the AgroIBIS model. Meteorological data and model input parameters such as the soil saturated hydraulic conductivity were measured at the Tanguro Ranch - MT. The simulation results provided by the InLand and AgroIBIS for the mean stream discharge were similar to the values observed between September 2008 and August 2010. Comparing the simulated streamflows for the four land uses in the Upper Xingu, it is possible to observe that the water yield in natural ecosystems (tropical rainforest and cerrado) was 53,5% lower than in agricultural ecosystems (pasture and soybean cropland). During the period of study, evapotranspiration was 38,3% lower in agricultural ecosystems compared with natural ecosystems. We also assessed the influence of 11 different soil textures on the partitioning of precipitation into evapotranspiration and mean annual streamflow for the four vegetation cover types studied. Regardless of soil texture, the simulated runoff in areas covered with tropical rainforest was always lower than that simulated for the other vegetation covers, and the difference between the simulated runoff for tropical rainforest and cerrado was greater for lower hydraulic conductivity saturated values.